Homer - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Homer and His Guide, by WilliamAdolphe Bouguereau (18251905). The scene portrays Homer on Mount Ida, beset by dogs and guided by the goatherd, Glaucus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer

Extractions: Influences rhapsodic oral poetry Influenced Classics Western canon Homer and His Guide, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825â1905). The scene portrays Homer on Mount Ida , beset by dogs and guided by the goatherd, Glaucus. (The tale is told in Pseudo-Herodotus). Homer ancient Greek HomÄros ) is a legendary ancient Greek epic poet , traditionally said to be the creator of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey . The ancient Greeks generally believed that Homer was a historical individual and the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey , but modern scholarship is more skeptical. No reliable biographical information about Homer has been handed down from

Homer This short chapter introduces the reader to the figure and ideas of Homer. This poet, at the conclusion of the Greek Dark Ages, summed up the values of that http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MINOA/HOMER.HTM

Extractions: word for word (over 25,000 lines of poetry); it may be possible that the Homeric poems were memorized with more exactitude than scholars believe. No matter what the case, by the end of the Greek Dark Ages, these bards or story-tellers were probably the cultural center of Greek society; their status improved greatly as Greeks began to slowly urbanize. Homer , and that he sung ten epic poems about the Trojan War, of which only two survived (although the Greeks seem to have known them). As a group these poems told the entire history of the Trojan War; each poem, however, only covered a small part of that history. Many classicists believe that the two surviving Homeric epics (probably the only Homeric epics) were in fact composed by several individuals; in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, most classicists accept the overall Greek idea of a single author. Whatever the compositional history of the poems, they were set down into writing within a few decades of their composition; the growing urbanization of Greek society led to the rediscovery of writing (learned from the Phoenicians this time), and the Homeric poems were committed to writing very quickly. Time and transmission added much extraneous material to the poems, but in their basic character and outline they seem to be the original compositions.

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Extractions: Advanced Search Homer was A Greek poet, to whom are attributed the great epics, the Iliad, the story of the siege of Troy, and the Odyssey, the tale of Ulysses's wanderings. The place of his birth is doubtful, probably a Greek colony on the coast of Asia Minor, and his date, once put as far back as 1200 BC, from the style of the poems attributed to him is now thought to be much later. Arguments have long raged over whether his works are in fact by the same hand, or have their origins in the lays of Homer and his followers (Homeridae), and there seems little doubt that the works were originally based on current ballads which were much modified and extended. Of the true Homer, nothing is positively known. The so-called Homeric hymns are certainly of a later age. Homer Biography Find essays on Homer No quizzes available to take yet.

Extractions: I liad O dyssey ... eedback Welcome to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey Page Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are a major part of ancient history, especially that of Ancient Greece. This site, by means of a purely educational and learning mission, has put together a collaboration of materials and works by our team that we feel will help you to understand and get more out of Homer and his/her/their works. This site will explore all facets of these epic poems, including the myths that embody the action and plot, as well as the many myths and theories about whom their composer really was. Ancient Greece is a major part of the eastern half of the world's history, as well as the western hemisphere. The United States alone owes so much to the Greeks. The Iliad and the Odyssey are believed to have been major parts of a young Greek's education, and today we see these great works incorporated into the curriculuum of almost every high school in America. Our hope is that you can learn as much as possible from our site, and that you we can learn from you! Please email with us any comments, questions, or additions that you see fit to add to the site!

Perseus Encyclopedia The Greeks traditionally assumed that a single poet named Homer composed both the Greeks of the archaic and classical periods looked upon Homer as their http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0004:id=home

Homer Chamber Of Commerce Homer is known to many as the Cosmic Hamlet by the Sea, but it was made famous in Tom Bodett s tales as The End of the Road. http://www.homeralaska.org/

The Homer Homepage The Homer Web Page from the U. of Massachusetts English Dept. Background on Greek mythology; the Trojan War; and plot, character, and themes in the Iliad http://www.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/world_literature/homer.html

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Welcome To The Simpsons.com But it wasn t always so easy for Homer J. Raised by his father, Abe, Homer is fond of Duff Beer, donuts, Marge s pork chops and watching the Bee Guy on http://www.thesimpsons.com/bios/bios_family_homer.htm

Extractions: Can life get any better for Homer J. Simpson? He juggles the roles of husband, father, safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, bowler, beer drinker, astronaut, small business owner and dreamer, and makes it all look easy. But it wasn't always so easy for Homer J. Raised by his father, Abe, who tried to compensate for the absence of Homer's radical hippie mother, Homer graduated at the bottom of his high school class and managed to earn the distinction of being the longest-term entry-level employee at the plant. Together with his high school sweetheart, Marge Bouvier, Homer settled down in Evergreen Terrace, the nicest upper-lower-middle class section of Springfield, to raise his three precious children. Homer is fond of Duff Beer, donuts, Marge's pork chops and watching the Bee Guy on the Spanish channel. His dislikes include his boss, Mr. Burns, yard work and his neighbor, Ned Flanders.

Winslow Homer Winslow Homer was a painter of the first kind. Even today, 150 years after his birth, one sees his echoes on half the magazine racks of America. http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/homer.html

Extractions: See also: " Winslow Homer: The Nature of Observation American Art VIEW IMAGE LIST "The Homer sesquicentennial (he was born in 1836 and died in 1910) is being celebrated with "Winslow Homer Watercolors," organized by Helen Cooper at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Her catalogue is a landmark in Homer studies. It puts Homer in his true relationship to illustration, to other American art and to the European and English examples he followed, from Ruskin to Millet ; its vivacity of argument matches that of the paintings. Cooper has brought together some two hundred watercolors-almost a third of Homer's known output. It is a wholly delectable show, and it makes clear why watercolor, in its special freshness and immediacy, gave Homer access to moments of vision he did not have in the weightier, slower diction of oils. "You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors," Homer once remarked, and he was almost right. He came to the medium late: he was thirty-seven and a mature artist. A distinct air of the Salon, of the desire for a "major" utterance that leads to an overworked surface, clings to some of the early watercolors-in particular, the paintings of

Homer'sWorld Homer sWorld. A queer archaeologist living in Tucson, Arizona. posted by Homer 400 PM. I dread John McCain becoming the president. http://homersworld.blogspot.com/

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Extractions: There has been a great deal of controversy about the identity of Homer. He is the author credited with "writing" (or creating) the two great epics from ancient Greek civilization: the Iliad and the Odyssey . Scholars debated (and some still do) for decades about whether there was an actual man known as Homer, or if instead the pair of epic poems were composed over time, by a series of storytellers, and were eventually written down. Although this is a fascinating issue, as it reveals that the Greeks were at one point a primarily oral society, the question itself is essentially moot. The fact is these two stories are profoundly moving tales of the heroic and legendary aspirations of the Greek people. Whether they were created by a single individual or by an anonymous collective makes no difference in the end. Controversy aside, there is no question that both the Iliad and the Odyssey had a deep and far-reaching effect on the legends and myths of the ancient Greeks. Some of the most renowned characters of mythology play roles in either one or both of these epics: Achilles, Ajax, Agamemnon, Menelaus, Helen, Paris, Hector, Odysseus, Penelope, etc. are all vividly portrayed. They are heroes and heroines, but they are also human, with flaws and foibles like the rest of us. The Greek gods and goddesses also take active parts in the stories, and it is in the

Island Of Freedom - Homer Homer was the major figure of ancient Greek literature and the author of the earliest and finest epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey. http://www.island-of-freedom.com/HOMER.HTM

Extractions: Homer was the major figure of ancient Greek literature and the author of the earliest and finest epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey . Tradition has it that he lived in the 12th century B.C., around the time of the Trojan War, in an Ionic settlement, either Chios or Smyrna, where he made his living as a court singer and storyteller. But modern archaeological research has uncovered artifacts similar to those described in the poems, providing evidence that Homer wrote at a later date. Most scholars now suppose that Homer was Ionian of the 8th or 9th century BC. Homer writes nothing of himself in his poems, but similes in the Iliad and the Odyssey frequently make reference to the humble lives of farmers and artisans, so it is sometimes conjectured that Homer was of this class.